The Pushkin Museum turned its gaze to the East and South America: “If something leaves, then something else comes”

The Pushkin Museum is negotiating exhibitions with Uruguay, Mexico, Cambodia, India

The director of the Pushkin Museum, Marina Loshak, said that in the face of limited choice, the museum is engaged in “directions that have not been touched before.” Negotiations are underway with Cambodia, India, Myanmar, Uruguay and Mexico. From local museums, they hope to bring antiquities and contemporary art to Moscow. In return, domestic projects will be sent there. New cultural bridges are being built on the fly. The task is to draw up plans for two years in advance, which is very difficult in today’s turbulent times. Now the museum’s focus is East and South America. Not only the Pushkin Museum looks there. Obviously, in a couple of months, many major museums will announce the exhibition program.

“I have dreamed of showing the art of ancient Cambodia for so long!” Marina Loshak admitted in a recent interview, where she talked about the exhibition plans of her museum. The director of the Pushkin Museum said that she had met with the director of the National Museum of Cambodia, received a “benevolent response with a willingness to cooperate.” Tight negotiations are underway with Myanmar and India. From these countries to bring exhibitions of ancient art to Russia.

And next week, Marina Loshak is receiving the Ambassador of Uruguay, with whom she will discuss an exhibition of contemporary Uruguayan art. Colleagues from Mexico, with whom the museum has been cooperating for a long time, did not stand aside.

“Details will be in December, but we are working in these areas. Solutions are being worked out. Exhibitions are under negotiation,” the press service of the museum told MK cautiously.

Other major art institutions, such as the Hermitage and the Tretyakov Gallery, seem to be working in the same direction, and perhaps in the coming months the museums will somehow join forces. Even if not, then, obviously, from the new year the cultural program will change: now the focus is on oriental and South American flavor.

“Why not? On the “bezrybe” ceramics from Mohenjo-Daro is post-impressionism,” bloggers gloat about the new “trend”. And it’s true, why not? As Loshak put it, it’s time to use your brains. “If something goes, something else comes,” she said. Some doors closed, others opened – logically. Culture cannot be closed on itself. So now we will more actively comprehend the intricacies of the East and study the mysterious history of the Maya. Maybe the third eye will open…